Issue Details

Issue	#9
Published	October 1972
Cover Price	0.60 USD
Pages	68
Editing	Al Hewetson
Notes	All info used by permission of Richard Arndt.

Cover Details - "Skull-Forest of Old Earth!"

Genre	Horror
Pencils	Jose Mirelles (painting)
Inks	Jose Mirelles (painting)
Colors	Jose Mirelles (painting)
Letters	typeset

1 page Mr. Pook foreword, introduction, preface, afterword

Characters	Mr. Pook
Genre	Horror
Script	Al Hewetson
Pencils	Pablo Marcos
Inks	Pablo Marcos
Notes	Frontispiece and titlepage. Introduces a horror host, later named Mr. Pook, for Nightmare. The contents page features the first mention of the term "horror-mood" in this title.

7 page story "Markheim"

Genre	Horror
Script	Robert Louis Stevenson (author); Al Hewetson (adaption)
Pencils	Jesus Duran [as D. Duran]
Inks	Jesus Duran [as D. Duran]
Notes	Art credited to D. Duran.

3 page [Nightmare World] story "The Nightmare World Of James Edgar: Call Them Ghouls, Call Them Trolls, Call Them Things"

Genre	Horror
Script	James Edgar; Al Hewetson
Pencils	Pablo Marcos
Inks	Pablo Marcos
Notes	From a dream by James Edgar. "Nightmare World" began a semi-regular series in which readers sent in their nightmare, which were then adapted into stories.

1 page story "The Guillotine"

Genre	Horror
Script	Al Hewetson
Pencils	Felipe Dela Rosa
Inks	Felipe Dela Rosa

2 page story "Zoo For The Beasts Of The Universe"

Genre	Horror
Script	Al Hewetson
Pencils	Maelo Cintron
Inks	Maelo Cintron
Notes	Cintron’s professional debut

2 page letters page "Lunatic Letters’ Page [+ Editorial]"

Script	Al Hewetson
Letters	Typeset

7 page Shoggoths, The story "The Skull Forest Of Old Earth"

Genre	Horror
Script	Al Hewetson
Pencils	Zesar Lopez
Inks	Zesar Lopez
Notes	The Shoggoths series begins, with Hewetson using H. P. Lovecraft’s Shoggoths as villains, although the stories themselves are new, not adaptations. Hewetson’s Shoggoths didn’t physically resemble Lovecraft’s descriptions either.

4 page text article "The Abominable Dr. Phibes"

Genre	Horror
Script	Al Hewetson
Pencils	? (photo)
Letters	Typeset
Notes	Text article with photos.

5 page story "The 300th Birth Day Party"

Genre	Horror
Script	Al Hewetson
Pencils	Ramon Torrents
Inks	Ramon Torrents
Reprinted	in Psycho (Skywald, 1971 series) #23 (January 1975)

11 page story "The Gargoyle Trilogy"

Genre	Horror
Script	Al Hewetson
Pencils	Felipe Dela Rosa
Inks	Felipe Dela Rosa
Notes	Although the gargoyles are identical, this story has nothing to do with the Human Gargoyles series. Next issue with the Gargoyles is Nightmare #10. Part 1 of 9?

8 page story "The Night In The Wax Museum"

Genre	Horror
Script	Al Hewetson
Pencils	Villanova
Inks	Villanova
Notes	The artist’s name is variously spelled with one or two L’s. Since his work for Seaboard/Atlas is spelled with 2 L’s, I’ve followed that custom.

1 page story "Dracula"

Genre	Horror
Script	Al Hewetson
Pencils	Pablo Marcos
Inks	Pablo Marcos

9 page story "The Beast Within"

Genre	Horror
Script	Al Hewetson
Pencils	Amador Garcia
Inks	Amador Garcia

1 page promo (ad from the publisher) "Ad for Nightmare #10"

Genre	Horror
Script	Al Hewetson
Pencils	Pablo Marcos
Inks	Pablo Marcos
Notes	Next issue ad

1 page text story "The Thing In The Alley"

Genre	Horror
Script	Al Hewetson
Pencils	Berni Wrightson
Inks	Berni Wrightson
Notes	Back cover. This story also appears, due to a printers' error, in Warren's Eerie #42 the same month! Art originally intended for Science Fiction Odyssey #1.